Horatio P. Scotts

Horatio Purcell Scotts (13 October 1805-29 May 1863) was a colonel of the US Army during the Seminole Wars and the Mexican-American War.

Biography
Horatio Purcell Scotts was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1805 to a Yankee family, and he enlisted in the US Army in 1823. Scotts served in the Seminole Wars and the wars against ths Sioux in the American West, and he was given command of a cavalry regiment at the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846. Scotts led his regiment at the Battle of Contreras in 1847, distinguishing himself by routing the remaining Mexican Army troops after the main army had decided to withdraw. Scotts retired from the army after the war's end, becoming a mine operator, and he died in 1863.